Brogan trained in psychiatry at NYU Medical Center, after an undergraduate science degree from MIT and a medical degree from Cornell. She is board-certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine. A Mind of Your Own, published by Harper Wave in 2016 and co-written with Kristin Loberg, was her first book and became a New York Times bestseller.

This review covers that one book — its argument about depression and antidepressants — and nothing else the author has said or published elsewhere.

Her central argument: depression is a signal that the body's own systems — blood sugar, gut health, thyroid function — have fallen out of balance, with inflammation doing much of the damage, including through pathways able to reach the brain. She walks through what she calls the serotonin myth: the chemical-imbalance explanation behind decades of antidepressant prescribing was never as settled as patients were told. The second half of the book sets out a 30-day protocol — dietary changes, targeted nutrient support, reduced everyday toxin exposure, sleep and stress work — built around the body doing the healing a prescription was otherwise meant to do.

Much of this sits on the same ground I coach from: psychiatric symptoms as a signal that the body itself is out of balance. Brogan is herself the prescriber in this picture — a board-certified psychiatrist who developed this protocol and runs it with her own patients, inside her own clinical practice. That is worth being clear about: this book reads as one psychiatrist's own clinical judgment, reached from inside the field, in the same company as Palmer's Brain Energy, reviewed separately. My own coaching keeps that same principle in place for every client, a real prescriber in the room throughout — it just runs through whichever prescriber already treats them, rather than through me.